🇺🇸Been playing and watching the game since the 60s. Big NY Giants fan here. Go Blue.
🇺🇸Thing is, I could care less about the NFL this year.
🇺🇸200,000 Americans are dead. Needlessly.
🇺🇸This is sinking in, right?
1/11
🇺🇸I admit, I dipped my toe in the water Thursday night for the kickoff to the season. Many of the players peacefully and respectfully protested during the anthem, because my God, how couldn’t they?
🇺🇸And they were booed.
2/11
🇺🇸They were booed by people who claim to want normalcy in their lives, but do everything in their white power to prevent it. Nobody tells these people what to do, except that guy in the WH who has liberated them to act the dangerous fool.
🇺🇸This is sinking in, right?
3/11
🇺🇸They want their football back, but can’t be bothered to wear a mask, because it’s all a hoax.
🇺🇸They want their football back, but can’t be bothered to consider for one damn minute the awful inequity people of color are dealing with in this country every, single day.
4/11
🇺🇸And those football players they boo? Mostly African-Americans … Fuck ‘em. Shut up and play.
5/11
🇺🇸They want their football back, but have somehow ignored the words of their guy in the White House who told us on tape this week he knew all along how deadly #COVID19 was, and then lied to everybody about it. Now 200,000 Americans are dead.
🇺🇸This is sinking in, right?
6/11
🇺🇸Americans are dying at a ghastly rate every hour. Healthcare workers, lawyers, students, plumbers, teachers, moms, dads, sisters, brothers … they are dying. DEAD. GONE.
🇺🇸And it didn’t have to be this way.
🇺🇸This is sinking in, right?
7/11
🇺🇸IT DIDN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.
8/11
🇺🇸Look, I don’t know what the future holds anymore, but I do know this: Nothing gets back to normal until we have a national plan to get this killer pandemic in check, like every other fucking country in the free world.
🇺🇸Biden is running against the guy in the WH who is killing Americans.
🇺🇸So it seems important I spend my afternoon phone-banking, messaging & doing everything I can to get people into government who give a shit about saving American lives.
🇺🇸And with a national plan in place, and a guy in the WH who will protect us, not feed on us, I’ll be the first guy flopping on the couch next year to watch my beloved Giants kick the Cowboys ass.
📌Right now MSNBC is failing miserably, at a time we've never needed truthful, left-leaning communications more. We are being drubbed by the oligarchs in the right-wing, fascist outposts -- like this place.
📌Here's what's MSNBC needs to do pronto.
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📌Start listening to your audience, MSNBC. They hate you right now. They believe you have failed and betrayed them. Stop trying to be some “both-sides” news organization, and start capturing the millions of people who are starving for truth, and know a revolting racist when they see one.
📌Stop trying to be too many different things to too many different audiences. Immediately dump the half-baked garbage on your station — like, Morning Joe, for instance. Seriously, what is it that show supposed to be doing?
📌On January 6th, 2021, Donald Trump attacked our country and tried to incinerate our votes to remain in power. Fake electors were lining up in states across our country to overturn the election. Law enforcement officers were beaten to a pulp. He watched and did nothing.
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📌It was appalling, and terrible, but at least — AT LEAST — there would be consequences, because NOBODY was going to get away with attacking the United States of America without facing severe consequences.
📌And, hell, it was going to be the easiest case to ever make. Hundreds of millions of people watched it unfold, after all.
📌As the Republicans push us toward fascism and authoritarian rule, you can expect to see far more censorship.
📌If they get their way, and I can’t think of any sound reason they won’t, they will take a sledgehammer to the Fourth Estate and try to beat it to death.
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📌We know this, because THEY HAVE TOLD US this is exactly what they intend to do.
📌Ice-cold irony then that the mainstream media, which is currently screaming loudest about this NOW, failed us catastrophically BEFORE by not reporting on the consequences of another Trump “presidency.”
📌BREAKING: The GOP-controlled House just passed a bill "giving Donald Trump unlimited authority to target political enemies."
📌Worse? MUCH worse: 15 Dems joined the GOP in passing H.R. 9495 — known as the "Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act"
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📌Among those 15 were Reps. Colin Allred (D-Texas), Yadira Caraveo (D-Colo.) Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.).
📌30 Dems didn't even bother voting.
📌THIS-IS-INSANE.
📌Reporting from AlterNet: “H.R. 9495 could feasibly be used against some of the groups that vocally opposed Trump during his first administration, like the ACLU, the Human Rights Campaign, the NAACP, Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center among others."
📌I will NOT be a part of the self-loathing by too many in Democratic “leadership” as they try to convince people like me — a high school dropout — that I'm some college-educated elite who doesn't understand what the majority of "hardworking” white voters want in this country.
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📌Look, if these complete morons on the Right want to vote against their self-interests, and America, they are beyond help, and all I will do is keep working my ass off to make sure people understand this.
📌What we have is a failure to communicate on the Left, but much more on that in a minute ... (And a warning: I am typing like the sailor I was right now, so if four-letter words offend you, you can skip all this. And happy Veterans Day to my fellow vets.)
🇺🇸 We are a battle-tested group of badass patriots that has prevailed time and again, and won one key political skirmish after another at an astonishing clip the past seven years.
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🇺🇸 The fact that we have accomplished this in the face of long odds, and unrelenting opposition has been an inspiration, and will fill fat chapters of the history books Republicans would rather people didn't read.
🇺🇸 We have generated breathtaking Blue Waves and drowned Red Ones. We have won the House, and we have won the Senate. We have won the presidency, and an overwhelming majority of the vote. We have won special elections, and not-so-special ones.